Min-Ping Huang
Department of Business Administration Yuan Ze University
Parallel to the research emphasis on organizational leadership in the West, academic journals of Taiwan have also published more than one thousand research papers on this issue in the past twenty years. These studies involved subjects from various organizations, such as business corporations, schools, hospitals, athletic teams, government and military units. The booming of leadership research in Taiwan and the effort of researchers to import and investigate leadership issues from the West are evident. However, on the other hand, these studies might have frameworks and hypotheses adapted from the Western research rather constructed from emic perspective. The scene is gradually changing since researchers in Taiwan started conducting indigenous research. This paper is aimed to review and comment on organizational leadership research in Taiwan over the past thirty years to describe the development paths, discuss important issues, and suggest possible directions for future researches.
Keywords: etic approach, emic approach, trait and behavior approach, contingency approach, charismatic leadership, transformational leadership, implicit personality theory, paternalistic leadership, differential leadership